St. Paul daily globe., 1887-01-23


9 ILee)-Taxing telegraph companies.
Taxes
10 (Donnelly)-To prevent corruption of
public officers by railroad corporations. Ju-
dietary
IL Donnelly)-Providing for annual ses-
sions of the legislature. Judiciary.
Is (DOnneuj ITO punish corrupt use of
money in elections. Judiciary.
IA Uucas)-Regulating the employment of
convict labor. Judiciary.
Il Uee)-Taxing express companies. Ju-
dietary.
% (Lum)-To build bridge at Brainerd.
Finance.
% (NewellJ-To prevent unreasonable de-
lay in payment of workingmens wages. La
28 (Keyes)-To regulate common carriers.
Railroads
81 (Reese)-To prevent combinations and
conspiracies to control the market price of
grain. Grain Inspection.
36 (Newel)-ro abolish the state board of
immigration. Labor. Recommended to pass.
Second reading.
81 {Newell)-To abolish process of garnish-
ment as applied to workingmen. Judiciary.
Recommended to be inde. ..nitely postponed,
but placed on file for second reading. Labor.
40 (POtier)-Relative to intoxicating liquors.
Temperance.
45 (Donnelly)-For the benefit of working
men and mechanics. Judiciary. Recon-
mended to pass.
roads.
55 (Donnelly)-To control railroad corpora
tions. Railroads.
64 (Donneny)-To secure postal rights for
the insane. Judiciary. Recommended to
pass.
65 Keyes)-Abolishing the office of oil in
spector. Judiciary.
20 (Prosser)-To inforce high license. Tenn
perance.
% (Williams)-TO tax notes and mortgages.
Judiciary. Recommended to be indefinitely
postponed. On file for second reading. Second
reading.
los (Shuler)-For building a soldiers
home. Soldiers home.
lug (Rogers) Fixing the rate of interest on
money. judiciary.
126 and l27 (Lum)-To create the fourteenth
and fifteenth judicial districts Judica airy.
1872 (Donnelly)-To regulate grain ware
houses, inspection, etc. Grain inspection.
13S (Freeman)-To build an addition to the
state normal school. Finance. Normal
schools.
155 (A1attson)- to elections. Ju-
dicIary.
100 (Potter)-To regulate actions for libel.
Judiciary.
I65. Donnelly)- to elections. Ju-
dietary
III (Bennett)-To appropriate money for
the Manlato Normal school. Finance.
Nornalssch hoeis.
17e*fBakerlv1-To appropriate money to aid
in draining lands in the Red river valley.
Fnanse,
1S5. IFreeman)-To build bridge at St.
Cloud delegation. st. Cloud delegation
200. (Hendrcks Giving females the right
OF suffrage. Judiciary.
20T. (Donnelly)-To establish the nomen-
cature of the ltascan sources of the Missis-
sppi river. Roads and Manageable streams.
2lS. (Kreis)-TO build bridge at Monti-
cello Roads and bridges.
222. (Potter)-Progiding for constitu-
tional convention. Judiciary.
IN THE SENATE.
No great burden of bills has the senate
forced upon itself, but of the 1877 intro
duced, fortyeight may be called weighty
and of general interest in their Importance
and seven of these have been passed. They
cover the great questions embraced in the
party platforms of last fall. No sooner
had the senate organized than Senator
Goodrich, of Blue Earth City, started IN for
high license. He introduced the first eight
bills of the session, the third raising the
age of consent, and the remaining five being
the bills recommended by the last railroad
commission. Then he prescribed a remedy
for grievances caused by the present tax
sales law. He sent up the long bill Oh
grain and warehouse inspection, also bill
of fOrty-Seven or more sections which the
railroad committee had also recommended.
Thus one man was made the instrument
through whom proposed legislation for the
temperance class, the farmer and the
cheated land owner, robbed under
the law pertaining to tax sales and judg-
ments was introduced. But the high license
railroad transportation, grain inspection
and tax title questions only cover small
portion of the legislative programme the
senate has mapped ont for itself. Good
rich went further and asked for postal
rights for inmates of insane aSylums, legal
identity and rights for married women. the
taxation of large tracts of railroad lands,
and lastly, that women be allowed to vote
in Minnesota by constitutional amend
ment. The senate has passed his bill to
give postal rights TO the confined insane,
and will doubtless pass the legal identity
for married women, the age of consent and
the tax title bills.
Other grave questions had their active
workers Senator Bowen, of Sleepy Eye,
has worn the mantle of Thomas Wilson,
and declared war against certain land cor
poratiOnS owning over 1000, 600 acres of
land. which for years has been exempt from
taxation. Senator Pope, of Mankato,
has been the advocate of legislation
for the old veterans of the Union,
and bills for a soldiers home, burial OF old
veterans and their preference i'll public en-
ployment, have been sent up to the desk
from him. the public preference bill being
passed. Senator Durant, of Saltwater,
has made al effort to prevent impostors
from getting the benefit of the proposed
soldier legislation by getting bill through
to prevent the unlawful wearing OF G. A.
r.. badges. Marcus johnson also has a
soldiers home bill. Senator Swenson, of
Minneapolis, has been the great labor ad-
yocate. and among his bills are those TO es-
fablish labor bureau to regulate the en-
plovment of children, and to prevent loco
motive engineers and tiremen from being
compelled to work over time. Senator Day,
of Fairmont has devoted his energy to
schools, and Senator Hoard has introduced
the proposed township school district system
for passage or death. The children of the
state have their representatives in Senators
Day. Pope. Swenson and Hoard, and efforts
10 have them duly instructed as to the
effects of alcohol and narcotics upon the
human system have been made by
Senators Thacker and Brown. a
substitute-bill having been recon-.
mended to pass by the committee
on education Ives. of st. Peter, has Sc
cured the passage of a railroad liabilities
bill: HaIvorsen. of Albert Lea has thrown
the valued insurance policy bill once more
into the mills OF the state legislature; Kel-
Ter. of Sauk Center. has started a crusade
against certain erring banks; Daniels. of
ror1 80 hot hH-